Riverdale Showrunner Drops Season 2 Spoilers

"Every force in the universe is out to pry Bughead apart."

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Riverdale's showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been sprinkling season 2spoilers here and there ever since season 1 ended, and he recently shared a few more hints with TV Line about Fred Andrews' mysterious death and the future of the main characters' relationships.

The search for the man who shot Fred "leads into darker chapters of Riverdale’s history... and puts all of our characters on the defensive," he said, and it's not the only challenge the characters will be confronting. Bughead and Varchie will both be facing relationship drama. "It’s almost like every force in the universe is out to pry Bughead apart," he said. "There are going to be problems coming in multiple different directions, besieging both of our couples."

Aguirre-Sacasa recently told Entertainment Tonight that a new character named Toni Topaz will be getting between Betty and Jughead, and the distance of going to two different schools could also test them.

Another big story the season will explore is the return of Hiram Lodge. We'll start to get answers to questions like "Is he reformed? Is he still up to his dastardly deeds? Is he somehow connected to the Fred gunman?", said Aguirre-Sacasa. Plus, there'll be a holiday episode, he said, though it's "probably not the holiday you imagine."